Dozing Quotes

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  • Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.

    Dream   Writing   Ideas  
    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

  • Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

    Sleep   Dozing   Laziness  
    "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.
  • I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

    Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

    Country   Years   Weight  
  • You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.

    Dozing   Might   Minutes  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

    Reality   Water   Heaven  
    John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway
  • Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

    Sleep   Men   Watches  
  • Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  • I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

    Couple   Two   Fog  
  • If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  • Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

    Dream   Dozing   Sides  
    Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (2004). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.174, OUP Oxford
  • Great acts are made up of small deeds.

    Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage
  • Be the chief but never the lord.

  • The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  • He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

    Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”
  • An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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